Greenhouse gas performance of heat and electricity from wood pellet value chains - based on pellets for the Swedish market

Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 378-396

  Hansson, Julia ^a   Martinsson, Fredrik ^a   Gustavsson, Mathias ^a  

^a IVL SWEDISH ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bioenergy; Greenhouse gases; Life cycle assessment (LCA); Sweden; Trade; Wood pellets

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL LIFE; BIOMASS; COMMERCE; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; EMISSION CONTROL; FOSSIL FUELS; GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE GASES; LIFE CYCLE; NATURAL GASOLINE PLANTS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WOOD; WOOD FUELS;

BIO-ENERGY; BIOMASS-BASED FUELS; EMISSIONS REDUCTION; HEAT AND ELECTRICITY; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); SUSTAINABILITY CRITERIA; SWEDEN; WOOD PELLET;

PELLETIZING;

EID: 84936985987     PISSN: 1932104X     EISSN: 19321031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bbb.1538     Document Type: Article

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